David Ignatius is an associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post.
31 Facts About David Ignatius
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David Ignatius has written eleven novels, including Body of Lies, which director Ridley Scott adapted into a film.
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David Ignatius is a former adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and currently Senior Fellow to the Future of Diplomacy Program.
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David Ignatius has received numerous honors, including the Legion of Honor from the French Republic, the Urbino World Press Award from the Italian Republic, and a lifetime achievement award from the International Committee for Foreign Journalism.
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David Ignatius's parents are Nancy Sharpless and Paul Robert Ignatius, a former Secretary of the Navy, president of The Washington Post, and former president of the Air Transport Association.
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David Ignatius was awarded a Frank Knox Fellowship from Harvard University and studied at King's College, Cambridge, where he received a diploma in economics.
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At the Journal, David Ignatius first covered the steel industry in Pittsburgh.
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David Ignatius then moved to Washington, where he covered the Justice Department, the CIA, and the Senate.
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David Ignatius was the Journals Middle East correspondent from 1980 through 1983, during which time he covered the wars in Lebanon and Iraq.
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David Ignatius returned to Washington in 1984, becoming chief diplomatic correspondent.
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In 1986 David Ignatius left the Journal for The Washington Post.
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David Ignatius returned to the Post in 2002 when the Post sold its interest in the Herald Tribune.
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David Ignatius continued to write his column once a week during his tenure at the Herald Tribune, resuming twice-weekly columns after his return to the Post.
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David Ignatius's column is syndicated worldwide by The Washington Post Writers Group.
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David Ignatius's writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Talk Magazine, and The Washington Monthly.
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In May 2015, MSNBC's Morning Joe announced that David Ignatius would be teaming up with composer Mohammed Fairouz to create a political opera called The New Prince, based on the teachings of Niccolo Machiavelli.
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In 2006 David Ignatius wrote a foreword to the American edition of Moazzam Begg's Enemy Combatant, a book about the author's experiences as a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
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In 2008, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft, and David Ignatius published America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy, a book that collected conversations, moderated by David Ignatius, between Brzezinski and Scowcroft.
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David Ignatius has been trustee of the German Marshall Fund since 2000.
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David Ignatius has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1984.
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In 2011 David Ignatius held a contest for The Washington Post readers to write a spy novel.
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David Ignatius wrote the first chapter and challenged fans to continue the story.
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David Ignatius chose the winning entry for each round, resulting in a six-chapter Web serial.
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In early 2012 Ignatius served as an adjunct lecturer at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, teaching an international affairs course titled Understanding the Arab Spring from the Ground Up: Events in the Middle East, their Roots and Consequences for the United States.
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David Ignatius is currently serving as a senior fellow at the Future of Diplomacy Program at Harvard University.
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David Ignatius was critical of the Bush administration's torture policies.
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On March 26,2014, David Ignatius wrote a piece in the Washington Post on the then crisis in Ukraine and how the world will deal with Putin's actions.
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At the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, David Ignatius moderated a discussion including then Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Israeli president Shimon Peres, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, and Arab League secretary-general Amr Moussa.
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David Ignatius gave Erdogan 12 minutes to speak and gave the Israeli president 25 minutes to respond.
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David Ignatius gave Erdogan a minute to respond, and when Erdogan went over his allocated minute, David Ignatius repeatedly cut the Turkish prime minister off, telling him and the audience that they were out of time and that they had to adjourn to a dinner.
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David Ignatius is married to Dr Eve Thornberg, with whom he has three daughters.